Bozorgmehr Hosseinpour got introduced to the magical world of Paint and Brush, through his father’s art pieces. As a kid he was always surrounded by his father’s art works, which made his childhood memories so colorful and the house itself into a museum filled with, tableaus and statues etc. As he grew up, Bozorgmehr was receiving education in Calligraphy, Painting, drawing as well as Miniatures. But it was only in elementary school when he started creating caricatures of his school bus driver on the way home, not exactly knowing that he was creating pieces called, caricature. After a while he started finding his own path using his magnificent and critical mind. At the age of 12 he published an inner family comic book. A year later, after his work got published by a magazine, he got hired by Kumarth Saberi the editor of Gol Agha, which was a prestigious and well known magazine at a time. He has been influenced and fascinated by the works of Gauguin, Vincent van Gogh and other impressionists which led to studying painting at the Azad University of Tehran in 1994. Throughout his cooperation with Kambiz Derambakhsh, and Ahmad Arabani his Artistic character got evolved. Bozorgmehr Hosseinpour is the Editor in Chief of the chizna online news website, at the present time.
Animation and Movie
Directed and created more than 10 promotional/commercial teasers for Iranian brands.
Directed and created 50 minutes of short films ordered by Saba Co.
“Khayyam and modern Art” Silk Road gallery, December 2015
Performances
“Seventy-tow nationalities” more than 2000 people attended this performance in order to be painted by Bozorgmehr Hosseinpour. And only 470 of them were painted within 5 hours. Silk Road gallery, Tehran,
“Tehran”, Tehran, February 2015
“Peace”piece of art created by people. Every individual drew a line in order to complete the painting. In the end 1395 lines were drawn in a week.
″Nails″ In 2016, a performance by Bozorgmehr took place in Tehran in order to raise awareness against domestic child abuse and violence. Nearly a thousand people showed up. They were all asked to bring a nail with them. Bozorgmehr used all the nails to draw that painting. The painting showed that a father`s hand was being kept away from his child`s face by all of those nails in a way that he couldn't slap the kid. The painting was sold and all the benefits went for charity.
on December 2016 Bozorgmehr hosseinpour drew a painting during shahram nazeri and kamkars concert, live on the scene. this painting was sold in order to help the charities and NGOs which were helping the survivors of Iran's 2016 earthquake at the time. all the benefits went to the Iran's 2016 earthquake survivors.
Awards
Winner of national cartoon exhibition of council of Tehran in subject of : *“The Blue sky of Tehran”.
1996-1st prize of the urban press exhibition.
2003-3rd prize of “Dialogue of civilizations international cartoon exhibition,Iran”.
